[Rarebooks] FS: Profusely Illustrated 1559 Herbal: Mattioli COMMENTARII SECUNDO AUCTI

[Charles Agvent]

MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea. COMMENTARII SECUNDO AUCTI, IN LIBROS SEX 
PEDACII DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA [with APOLOGIA ADVERSUS 
AMATHUM LUSITANUM]. Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1559. Third Edition in 
Latin. Folio in sixes (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") in modern leather; [98] (of 
[100]), 776; 46, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on 
verso; lacks index leaf b1. Profusely illustrated with more than 700 
woodcuts, about 10% of which are not botanical in nature and include 
various animals and sea life as well as such scenes as a beekeeper, a 
couple shearing sheep, a man catching snakes, etc. Old partly scored 
inscriptions on title page, occasionally heavy marginal soiling and 
stains, scattered early underscoring, clean tear in 2G6, crude marginal 
restoration on last two leaves. Scratch to front cover. Very Good 
example of this important and well-illustrated early herbal.

Mattioli's commentary on the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of 
Dioscorides was first published in Italian in 1544 (without 
illustrations) and in Latin translation in 1554 (with fewer woodcuts 
than in this edition). Appended to this edition is his attack on Amatus 
Lusitanus (i. e., João Rodrigues), the Marrano physician and commentator 
on Dioscorides. Nissen BBI 1305. (#018984)        $4,500.00

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